Resource Points - High Resource Usage On Low Traffic Sites

Shared Hosting allows you to do just about anything — you can start a website using WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB or thousands of other scripts. You can code your own PHP, Perl, Python, or Ruby on Rails and build a custom site. Our goal is to give you the tools to do what you like, but the one thing we have to measure is Resource Points which is the measurement of all the hardware resources you are using on your hosting account.So why is your Resource Point usage so high even though your website has very little traffic?Generally that is because you are running something that takes a lot of hardware resources or possibly poor website optimization. Every time your website is loaded by a visitor, it uses a small fraction of a Resource Point. If you are running WordPress, PHP code is run on the server every time a person visits to generate the page they want to see. This uses more Resource Points, and every time your site is pulling data or adding data to a database that also takes resources.For example, forum software like phpBB normally uses more Resource Point than WordPress. That is because every time a visitor loads a page on your forum it is running that php code and making a lot of database calls, more than a visitor to WordPress in most cases.Another example, WordPress is very well written but a lot of plugins are not. We’ve seen a lot of problems with poorly written plugins causing a lot of Resource Point usage. The same goes for other CMS scripts like Drupal, Joomla, vBulletin, etc.